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This survey provides a comprehensive exploration of applications of Topological Data Analysis (TDA) within neural network analysis. Using TDA tools such as persistent homology and Mapper, we delve into the intricate structures and behaviors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Rubén Ballester , Carles Casacuberta , Sergio Escalera

Topological data analysis (TDA) provides insight into data shape. The summaries obtained by these methods are principled global descriptions of multi-dimensional data whilst exhibiting stable properties such as robustness to deformation and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Ali Zia , Abdelwahed Khamis , James Nichols , Zeeshan Hayder , Vivien Rolland , Lars Petersson

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is a rising field of computational topology in which the topological structure of a data set can be observed by persistent homology. By considering a sequence of sublevel sets, one obtains a filtration that…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-03-17 Yu-Min Chung , William Cruse , Austin Lawson

The unsupervised detection of anomalies in time series data has important applications in user behavioral modeling, fraud detection, and cybersecurity. Anomaly detection has, in fact, been extensively studied in categorical sequences.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Timothy LaRock , Vahan Nanumyan , Ingo Scholtes , Giona Casiraghi , Tina Eliassi-Rad , Frank Schweitzer

In cybersecurity it is often the case that malicious or anomalous activity can only be detected by combining many weak indicators of compromise, any one of which may not raise suspicion when taken alone. The path that such indicators take…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Thomas Davies

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is a rigorous framework that borrows techniques from geometric and algebraic topology, category theory, and combinatorics in order to study the "shape" of such complex high-dimensional data. Research in this…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-04-15 R. W. R. Darling , John A. Emanuello , Emilie Purvine , Ahmad Ridley

The study of topology is strictly speaking, a topic in pure mathematics. However in only a few years, Topological Data Analysis (TDA), which refers to methods of utilizing topological features in data (such as connected components, tunnels,…

Applications · Statistics 2019-09-25 Nalini Ravishanker , Renjie Chen

In this paper we develop a novel Topological Data Analysis (TDA) approach for studying graph representations of time series of dynamical systems. Specifically, we show how persistent homology, a tool from TDA, can be used to yield a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-28 Audun Myers , Elizabeth Munch , Firas A. Khasawneh

Topological data analysis is a relatively new branch of machine learning that excels in studying high dimensional data, and is theoretically known to be robust against noise. Meanwhile, data objects with mixed numeric and categorical…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-06-15 Chengyuan Wu , Carol Anne Hargreaves

The surge of data available on the Internet has driven the adoption of a wide range of computational methods for analyzing and extracting insights from large-scale data. Among these, Machine Learning (ML) has become a central paradigm,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Adaku Uchendu , Thai Le

Topological data analysis (TDA) is a tool from data science and mathematics that is beginning to make waves in environmental science. In this work, we seek to provide an intuitive and understandable introduction to a tool from TDA that is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Lander Ver Hoef , Henry Adams , Emily J. King , Imme Ebert-Uphoff

Surface roughness plays an important role in analyzing engineering surfaces. It quantifies the surface topography and can be used to determine whether the resulting surface finish is acceptable or not. Nevertheless, while several existing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-20 Melih C. Yesilli , Firas A. Khasawneh

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) allows us to extract powerful topological and higher-order information on the global shape of a data set or point cloud. Tools like Persistent Homology or the Euler Transform give a single complex description…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Vincent P. Grande , Michael T. Schaub

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is a recent and growing branch of statistics devoted to the study of the shape of the data. In this work we investigate the predictive power of TDA in the context of supervised learning. Since topological…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-22 Tullia Padellini , Pierpaolo Brutti

Topological data analysis (TDA) is a rapidly evolving field in applied mathematics and data science that leverages tools from topology to uncover robust, shape-driven insights in complex datasets. The main workhorse is persistent homology,…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Zhe Su , Xiang Liu , Layal Bou Hamdan , Vasileios Maroulas , Jie Wu , Gunnar Carlsson , Guo-Wei Wei

Unsupervised data representation and visualization using tools from topology is an active and growing field of Topological Data Analysis (TDA) and data science. Its most prominent line of work is based on the so-called Mapper graph, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Ziyad Oulhaj , Mathieu Carrière , Bertrand Michel

This paper describes the systematic application of local topological methods for detecting interfaces and related anomalies in complicated high-dimensional data. By examining the topology of small regions around each point, one can…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-05-25 Bernadette J Stolz , Jared Tanner , Heather A Harrington , Vidit Nanda

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) has achieved success and has been widely applied in various domains, such as fraud detection, cybersecurity, finance security, and biochemistry. However, existing graph anomaly detection algorithms focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Xing Ai , Jialong Zhou , Yulin Zhu , Gaolei Li , Tomasz P. Michalak , Xiapu Luo , Kai Zhou

Topological data analysis (TDA) is a rising branch in modern applied mathematics. It extracts topological structures as features of a given space and uses these features to analyze digital data. Persistent homology, one of the central tools…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-05-26 Chuan-Shen Hu

Detecting anomalies in data is a vital task, with numerous high-impact applications in areas such as security, finance, health care, and law enforcement. While numerous techniques have been developed in past years for spotting outliers and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Leman Akoglu , Hanghang Tong , Danai Koutra